BAD HOFGASTEIN, Austria — Artificial intelligence poses an “existential” threat to Europe’s health and social security systems through its potential to “completely replace” human work and eliminate the income tax funding base on which they depend, a leading health policy figure has warned. Clemens Marten Auer, president of the European Health Forum Gastein, used the […] Continue reading ->
Grand corruption schemes siphoning billions in state resources to government-linked elites have crushed South Sudan’s health system as the country teeters between famine and a new civil war, UN investigators found. The findings of a two-year investigation by the independent UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan published on Tuesday document how systematic corruption […] Continue reading ->
Mass atrocities, rape, famine, sexual and ethnically targeted violence have plagued Sudan’s civil war since it erupted two years ago. With peace nowhere in sight, a new report released by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recounts in devastating detail: nothing has changed.  Based on interviews with over 80 civilians, MSF data and direct observations from its […] Continue reading ->